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Space-exploring property baron Robert Bigelow says Florida governor is not the ‘commander’ US needs
...For the medieval baron, whose castle was both home and fortification, mastery of all he surveyed was critical to survival....
...Investors in the carmaker have more than just its fickle chief executive and his dabblings as a social media baron....
...Fast forward to more recent times and the manor was bought in the late 1950s by the American oil baron John Paul Getty, who sold it to the art collector Stanley J....
Group’s founder attributes a significant portion of his family’s wealth to Epstein
...That share had fallen to 39.5 per cent by the end of February, according to Baron Funds’ website....
...The big four have gone from “scrappy, underdog start-ups”, the report says, to the “kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons”....
...The best the railroad barons could do in terms of microtargeting was to hand out free boarding passes to politicians they liked....
...The darker side of a British tech baron Most DD readers are probably unfamiliar with Lawrence Jones, but you’ve definitely heard of his friends....
...Edison worried that industrialism’s potential to serve the progress of humanity would be thwarted by the power of the robber barons and the monopolist economics that ruled their kingdoms....
...Michael Dell is set to bring his namesake computer company back to Wall Street with a personal stake valued at $35bn, catapulting the PC pioneer into the ranks of the world’s richest tech barons....
...• Franklin Templeton, the $770bn California-based asset manager, has hired Caroline Baron as head of ETF sales for the Emea region. Ms Baron previously worked for Invesco....
...As a classic illustration they cite Viacom’s Sumner Redstone, the media baron who unquestionably was a wizard in his day, but who at a frail 94 has been called a living ghost....
...How about this as a scenario for a trashy, late night television show: a connected private equity baron teams up with a scandal-hit media group to further roll up the industry after the regulator changes...
...Baron Rothschild, an 18th century member of the Rothschild banking family, is famously quoted as saying: “The time to buy is when there is blood on the streets.”...
...No less an authority than Charles Koch, one of the industrialist brothers who, in liberal demonisation, would use Citizens United to return the country to the late 19th century heyday of the robber barons...
...Yet if the new prince was alarmed by this strange foreign court full of feuding barons, he didn’t show it. Micklethwait has a steely temperament, friends say....
...Mr Baron said: “Winton faced an uphill battle when it came to persuading investors to put their money offshore....
...Mr Baron says: “If you work in financial services in Asia, you will have heard about the six QDLP managers....
...Grants have accounted for only about half the LLC’s $890m of spending since inception, says Matt Bannick, managing partner at the Omidyar Network....
...Deloitte’s Mr Captain says the new space barons are also happy to use off-the-shelf equipment, which helps cut costs....
...A power-hungry space baron could feasibly argue that the UN treaty does not apply to them since they are not a sovereign state....
...Venture capitalists, like hedge fund managers and private equity barons, are doing their best and responding to clear incentives....
...(Financial Times) Citic “has bought a stake in U.S. brokerage firm BTIG LLC, the company’s latest move to grow outside of China through buying a holding in a Western investment firm....
...Silver Lake, the technology investment firm, has bought a 31 per cent stake in William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, which represents stars such as Matt Damon and Sacha Baron Cohen, to finance the expansion...
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